Impulsivity estimates of mixtures of the power exponential distrubutions in speech modeling

a technology of power exponential and mixture model, applied in the field of speech recognition, can solve problems such as insufficient purely gaussian densities

Inactive Publication Date: 2004-10-12
IBM CORP
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Most pattern recognition problems require the modeling probability density of feature vectors in feature space.
Purely Gaussian densities have been known to be inadequate for this purpose due to the heavy tailed distributions observed by speech feature vectors.

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For the specific problem of automatic machine recognition of speech as considered by S. Basu and C. Micchelli, supra, preliminary attempts were made to find the "best" value of .alpha. by running the speech recognizer for several different values of .alpha. and then choosing the value of .alpha. corresponding to the lowest word recognition error. The choice of recognition accuracy as the optimality criterion for .alpha. is dictated by the practical need for best recognizer. While other criteria for recognition accuracy (e.g., error rates based on phonemes, syllables or at a more detailed level of grannularity, the classification accuracy of feature vectors) can be thought of, we are primarily concerned with automated methods of finding an optimal value of the parameter .alpha..

In the general context of multivariate mixture densities, this is a difficult task; therefore, the description which follows is restricted to the case of modeling univariate data with one mixture component of ...

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A parametric family of multivariate density functions formed by mixture models from univariate functions of the type exp(-|x|<beta>) for modeling acoustic feature vectores are used in automatic recognition of speech. The parameter beta is used to measure the non-Gaussian nature of the data. beta is estimated from the input data using a maximum likelihood criterion. There is a balance between beta and the number of data points that must be satisfied for efficient estimation.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention generally relates to the technology of speech recognition and, more particularly, to a parametric family of multivariate density functions formed by mixture models from univariate functions for modeling acoustic feature vectors used in automatic recognition of speech.BACKGROUND DESCRIPTIONMost pattern recognition problems require the modeling probability density of feature vectors in feature space. Specifically, in the problem of speech recognition, it is necessary to model the probability density of acoustic feature vectors in the space of phonetic units. Purely Gaussian densities have been known to be inadequate for this purpose due to the heavy tailed distributions observed by speech feature vectors. See, for example, Frederick Jelenik, Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition, MIT Press (1997). As an intended remedy to this problem, practically all speech recognition systems attempt modeling by using a mixture model with Gaussian den...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G10L15/14G10L15/00
CPCG10L15/144
Inventor BASU, SANKARMICCHELLI, CHARLES A.OLSEN, PEDER A.
Owner IBM CORP
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